Jackson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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22 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In its review the Court of Appeal held: "The trial judge correctly applied the latest expression of the law to the case by basing his decision as to support for . . . [the children over eighteen] on the amendment to Article 37. Likewise, this court must decide this appeal by applying the law as it now exists and not on the basis of what the law may have been at the time of the trial of the case. It is the duty of an appellate court to adjudge a case before it in accordance with the law existing at the time of its own decision, even if it requires reversing a judgment that was entirely proper at the time of its rendition."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dripps v. Dripps

2. “Art. 37. Persons of the age of eighteen years shall be considered of full age and until they attain that age, shall be minors. A person who is eighteen years of age or older shall be regarded as being fully emancipated, shall be considered adults and shall have the same rights, duties, responsibilities and capacities as persons who are twenty-one years of age or older.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 283 So. 2d 226 - Bernhardt v. Bernhardt